An Open Letter to Dr. Clarence Cook Little
Is there tangible evidence, of a relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer? Eighteen studies conducted in five countries have shown that there is, but Dr. Clarence Cook Little, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, asserts that three years of research by his group have “produced no evidence that cigarette smoking or other tobacco use contributes to the origin of lung cancer.” DR. DAVID D. RUTSTEIN is head of the Preventive Medicine Department at the Harvard Medical School.